"I did not see your model year until now. Only on the 2003 bike should the valve clearance be checked every 15,000 miles, starting at 15,000 miles. On older bikes, the valve clearance is checked earlier and more often.

If there is no maintenance chart in your owner's manual, another older bike owner should chime in soon."

In other words....I guess I've been neglecting the maintenance on my bike [xx(]

According to this page http://www.themcdonalds.net/richard/...t/valves.shtml, it should be done 12,000Km or rougly 7,500 miles. However, that is for my model '01 and not yours. I would say that if you've ridden the bike 20,000+km and haven't done it/had it done you definitely should.

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